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LOT 41:
Rare. Pirkei Avos with Yiddish Translation. Iasi, 1843
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Rare. Pirkei Avos with Yiddish Translation. Iasi, 1843
Maseches Avos with commentary and translation into Yiddish.
Printed for those who customarily recite Pirkei Avos after Minchah of Shabbos in the summer, “in order to merit the Day that is entirely Shabbos.”
The printing press in Iasi was established in that same year (1843); this was one of the first sefarim printed there. At the time, there was a large and well-established Jewish community in Iasi, numbering approximately 30,000 people.
Iasi, 1843.
[54] leaves. Page size: 17 cm.
The title page and some pages were printed on blue paper. Holes in margins of back pages. Antique leather binding with embossing.
